Never thought I'd say this, but I think I'm actually progressing as a writer; this time last year I had just finished the first chapter of my story, and was working on the second one; as a repeat of history I'm doing the exact same thing, in the rewrite. What amazes me is that for the first time since... ever, I have actually seen a side by side comparrison of my work now, versus my work a year ago, and can honestly see improvement in my writing, which for me, is nearly impossible to do, so yeah, I appreciate the small things.

Now then, onto the main subject, I've just finished the rewrite of the first chapter, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out; I still need to send it over to  purplemonkey for editing, but I don't think there's too much wrong with it. *crosses fingers*
I'm starting chapter two and can already say that I'm genuinely nervous about how this chapter will work out... given that it was so long to begin with, I may have to split it up into two parts, which won't bother me too much, I think I may have to do that with a couple of other chapters as well -- but what does bother me is that I've written the revised version in such a way that I need to figure a way to tie this chapter in, like I did with the first chapter; that's the hard part. The easy part will be reworking the overall chapter to make it easier to read, flow better, and make more sense in the long run.
I'm not sure exactly how it will turn out, but given how the side by side on the first chapter looked... I'm really looking forward to reworking the second chapter.